Swing Time
Autor Zadie Smithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iul 2017
'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous'Observer
'Superb'Financial Times'Breathtaking'TLS'Pitch-perfect'Daily Telegraph
'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith'Telegraph
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017
A dazzlingly exuberant novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the critically acclaimed author ofWhite Teeth,On BeautyandGrand Union
Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either.
Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement,Swing Timeis Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it . . .
Toate formatele și edițiile | Preț | Express |
---|---|---|
Paperback (3) | 55.08 lei 22-33 zile | +23.73 lei 7-13 zile |
Penguin Books – 5 iul 2017 | 55.08 lei 22-33 zile | +23.73 lei 7-13 zile |
Penguin Books – 5 iul 2017 | 57.79 lei 3-5 săpt. | +10.50 lei 7-13 zile |
Penguin Publishing Group – 4 sep 2017 | 96.46 lei 3-5 săpt. |
Preț: 57.79 lei
Nou
11.06€ • 11.99$ • 9.24£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 21 noiembrie-05 decembrie
Livrare express 07-13 noiembrie pentru 20.49 lei
Specificații
ISBN-10: 0241980267
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as two collections of essays, Changing My Mind and Feel Free, and a collection of short stories, Grand Union. White Teeth won multiple awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.
Recenzii
Publisher's description. Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human,Swing Timeis Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet: a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.
Endlessly satisfying... [Zadie Smith] has never written better. Pitch-perfect, masterful and sophisticated
Zadie Smith is the best writer of our generation, andSwing Timeis her best book to date.As the title promises, the novel swings and pulsates with life, filled with emotion, excited by intellect and haunted by sadness. What a miracle that literature can still do things other forms of art cannot.What a miracle that Zadie Smith is among us, writing.
Clever, funny, confident and kind. Her gift for language is a pleasure and her character shines through
[Smith] packs moreintelligence, humour and sheer energyinto any given scene than anyone else of her generation
Zadie Smith's finest novel. Extraordinary, virtuosic... [It] does what only literature can and what onlygreatliterature will: forces us to assess the very vocabulary with which we speak of human experience
Zadie Smith at her finest... [An] unflinching portrait of friendship... [A] triumph
Ingenious, inspired... Zadie Smith's new novel is very good indeed
Shrewd observation and sly satire, profundity and genuine purpose, as well as some of the most heart-stoppingly lyrical writing of her career
A powerful story of lives marred by secrets, unfulfilled potential, the unjustness of the world...and the dances people do to rise above it all
A sweeping meditation on race and identity... [Smith's] most ambitious work yet
A nuanced, richly rewarding tale
Descriere
'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' Observer 'Superb' Financial Times 'Breathtaking' TLS 'Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph
'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017
A dazzlingly exuberant novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the critically acclaimed author of White Teeth, On Beauty and Grand Union
Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either.
Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it . . .
Textul de pe ultima copertă
'Superb. One of the most entertaining novels you'll read this year' The Times Literary Supplement
How do we become who we are?
Can we ever truly escape our origins?
Must we dance to the music of our time?
Set in London, New York and West Africa, Swing Time is about two brown girls from Willesden who dream of being dancers. Only one - Tracey - has the talent. But the other has ideas which take her further than she could ever have imagined. It is a story of finding happiness in the meanest of places and feeling sad when all around you are happy. It's about the choices we make and the choices made for us. Above all, it's a tale of the friendships that anchor us, define us, and change us forever.
'Smith's finest [novel]. Truly marvellous, so extraordinary. Has brilliant things to say about race, class and gender' Observer
'A thrilling, multilayered tour-de-force' Los Angeles Times
'Smith has never written better. Her dialogue is pitch-perfect, her comic timing masterful' Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
'Dazzling' Irish Independent
'A true, beautifully executed tragicomedy. Some of the most heart-stoppingly lyrical writing of Smith's career' Scotland on Sunday